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Hey, I really did it! This is exactly the sort of thing I thought I’d never be able to sew. I seem to have reversed the greens from what I meant to do. I’d intended to have them follow the same light/dark pattern as the big points. That’s probably one of those things that...

I finished piecing hexagons for my mug rug: Yay! Now I need to trim it to a rectangle, figure out what I want to use for the backing, quilt it and bind it. I keep being surprised at how quick and painless hand-sewing these hexagons was. Although I like embroidery, for some reason I...

I got over being scared of the surveyor’s compass block and picked out fabric for it. I dithered for quite a while about the little triangle of contrast color. Most of the examples I saw used a complementary color for contrast, but what’s the complementary color of brown? Nothing flashes with brown. I figured...